Price: €460
“Trivial details can be filled with meaning” writes Hanna Hellquist (b. 1980) and reveals that she is obsessed with setting the table beautifully; with creating a table. And perhaps it is especially important to find significance in the small things when life is uncertain and the world is in a turmoil. To create meaning in an otherwise grey existence.
Photo by Samuel Voigt Lind
The meal as a motif has been present in art since antiquity. Often laden with symbols and full of allegories, like the 17th century still life – nature morte – in which compositions of platters laden with bunches of grapes, flowers and butterflies could be designed to manifest wealth and worldliness but also poverty and misery.
The many facets of a dinner table extend along lengths of table settings in Millesgården’s exhibition hall and evoke thoughts – big and small – about life.
Current research shows that mental well-being is promoted by coming together around a meal and sitting down at our leisure. The same studies also show that fewer and fewer people do so.
Hanna Hellquist is a journalist and frequently appears in television and radio. For the exhibition at Millesgården, she has invited designers, artists and creators, including Marie-Louise Ekman and Evelina Kroon to celebrate the pleasure and praise of the set table
Galerii nimi: Millesgården
Address: Herserudsvägen 32, Lidingö, Sweden
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11:00 - 17:00
Open: 11.02.2023 — 28.05.2023
Address: Herserudsvägen 32, Lidingö, Sweden
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11:00 - 17:00
Open: 11.02.2023 — 28.05.2023
